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Timetable: Pere Marquette - Grand Rapids Terminal - Seymour to Lamar, Sunnyside to Comstock Park
This is the portion of the main line (Detroit to Chicago) within the Grand Rapids Terminal, as well as the line north towards Traverse City. Station hours and siding capacity as of 1944.
Station | MP from Detroit | Notes |
Seymour | 148.1 | DN |
Pleasant Avenue xPRR (Previously Second Street) |
151.3 | DN I |
(Grand Rapids Union Station) | From GRUS | DN Yard |
9th Avenue Yard | Yard | |
Sunnyside | 0.7 | |
Plaster Creek | 2.0 | DN |
Wyoming Yard | 3.0 | RH EH CS T C W Yard |
Lamar Tower | 3.5 | DN I |
North: | From Sunnyside | |
Sunnyside | 0.0 | J |
Amtrak Station | ||
Drawbridge | 0.3 | |
Watson Streeet | ||
Winter Street | 0.7 | |
West Side Yard | 0.8 | Yard |
Fourth Street | 1.5 | |
Fuller xGTW | 3.0 | DN X |
Park Siding | 4.5 | P73 |
Comstock Park xPRR | 5.5 | |
Notes:
Seymour is the beginning of double track going through the Grand Rapids terminal.
Pleasant Street may have moved from 2nd Avenue.
Plaster Creek and Lamar are the east and west entrances to PM Wyoming Yard.
Grand River drawbridge is no longer a moveable bridge. It was double track in 1945.
Watson Street had gates, normally set for PM movement.
Fourth Street was the beginning of southbound double track into the Grand Rapids terminal in 1945.
Fuller was the crossing of the GTW line to South Haven, gate controlled by operator. Normally set against the GTW.
Comstock Park was the crossing of the GR&I/PRR branch to Mackinaw City. It was controlled by a target at the crossing, set by trainmen.
Note Key: BB=Bascule Bridge | C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Enginehouse | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | LB=Liftbridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | SB=Swingbridge | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard
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Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI